Book review – For Better Science

by Leonid Schneider October 13, 2020 8

Brian Deer’s book on Andrew Wakefield: “The Doctor Who Fooled the World”

My review of the new book by Brian Deer about what became the biggest medical scandal in recent history: Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research on MMR vaccines and his antivax campaigning which continues even today.

by Leonid Schneider September 23, 2020 3

Book review COVID-19

Our Malady, by Timothy Snyder: book review

US Historian Timothy Snyder is expert for murderous totalitarian systems. Now, he himself almost died when he succumbed to the inhuman US profiteering industry which America calls healthcare.

by Leonid Schneider September 4, 2020 12

Book review Research integrity

How USA embraced research fraud: review of two books

A review of “The Baltimore Case” by the historian Daniel Kelves and “Science Fictions” by the journalist John Crewdson, which also tell the history of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI).

by Leonid Schneider August 19, 2020 3

Book review COVID-19

Jill Fisher’s Adverse Events: a book review

The new book Adverse Events by Jill Fisher shows the reality behind phase 1 clinical trials in USA and the “healthy volunteers” who participate in those. Clue: they are not White middle-class university students with a penchant for altruism.

by Leonid Schneider October 23, 2019 9

Book review

Kate Brown’s “Manual for Survival”, a Chernobyl book review

This is what I learned from the new book by the historian Kate Brown, “Manual for Survival- A Chernobyl Guide to the Future”, a book which I strongly recommend.

by Leonid Schneider September 3, 2018 11

Book review medicine Megaproject

Megagrant, the Russian docu-novel of Paolo Macchiarini

This is my review of the Russian book “Megagrant”, which tells of Macchiarini’s adventures with the plastic trachea, much of it played out in Russia, funded by a state Megagrant of €4.5mn. Some books are namely only good as court evidence.

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